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Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَشْهَد (mašhad).
Pronunciation
Noun
مَشْہَد • (maśhad) f (Hindi spelling मशहद)
- a place where a martyr has died, or is buried; a place of martyrdom; a place of religious visitation; a tomb
- a place of assembling, an assembly
Proper noun
مَشْہَد • (maśhad) m (Hindi spelling मशहद)
- Mashhad (The second largest city in Iran; capital of Razavi Khorasan)
Further reading
- “مشہد”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “مشہد”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.